CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship, Private Bag 1, Vic. 3195, Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Ok...

Epigenetics is a rapidly evolving scientific field of inquiry examining how a wide range of environmental, social, and nutritional exposures can dramatically control how genes are expressed without changing the underlying DNA. Research has demonstrated that epigenetics plays a large role in human development and in disease causation. In a sense, epigenetics blurs the distinction between "nature...

The city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, has sociodemographic characteristics similar to some African cities. Up to now, it has had the highest prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infection (1.74%) in the country. To investigate which strains of HTLV-I are circulating in Salvador, we studied isolates from 82 patients infected with HTLV-I: 19 from the general population, 21...

In this article, we propose the Theil-Sen estimators of parameters in a multiple linear regression model based on a multivariate median, generalizing the Theil-Sen estimator in a simple linear regression model. The proposed estimator is shown to be robust, consistent and asymptotically normal under mild conditions, and super-efficient when the error distribution is discontinuous. It can be chos...

1 Department of Epidemiology & Bio-statistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta, India. 2 Health Services Research, St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO 63108 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Urmi Sen, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 37, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700026, Fax: 91-33-475 7606, e-mail: u...

Hai Wang,1 Biao Wang,1,2 Qingkun Li,1 Zhenye Zhu,1 Rui Wang,3 and C. H. Woo4 1School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 2School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 3Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 4Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Po...

In this article we introduce the multiplier vector valued sequence space `{Ek,Λ, p}, where Λ = (λk) is an associated multiplier sequence of non-zero complex numbers and the terms of the sequence are chosen from the seminormed spaces Ek, k ∈ N . This generalizes the scalar sequence space `{p}. We study some properties of this space like solidity, symmetricity, completeness, separability. Prove s...

1Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China; 2Clinical Experimental Center, Jiangmen Central Hospital, Affiliated Jiangmen Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangmen 529030, China; 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospi...

a National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Business Management, 70 Lianhai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan b Tainan University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, 529 Jhongjheng Road, Yongkang Dist., Tainan City 710, Taiwan c University of California at Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, 4121 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–1777, United...